The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
Information posted @ http://perryjgreenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/04/shlomo-mintz-mendelssohn-violin.html

Violin concerto

A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and Alban Berg (in the latter, the first two and last two movements are connected, with the only break coming between the second and third). In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the violin (or group of violins) is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra—for instance, Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and Allan Pettersson's first concerto, for violin and string quartet.

Much of the classical guitar repertoire is in E minor, as this is a very natural key for the instrument. In standard tuning (E A D G B E), four of the instrument's six open (unfretted) strings are part of the tonic chord. The key of E minor is also popular in heavy metal music, as its tonic is the lowest note on a standard-tuned guitar.

Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time. A typical performance lasts just under half an hour.

Mendelssohn originally proposed the idea of the violin concerto to Ferdinand David, a close friend and then concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Although conceived in 1838, the work took another six years to complete and was not premiered until 1845. During this time, Mendelssohn maintained a regular correspondence with David, who gave him many suggestions. The work itself was one of the foremost violin concertos of the Romantic era and was influential on many other composers.

Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects include the almost immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work (rather than following an orchestral preview of the first movement's major themes, as was typical in Classical-era concertos) and the through-composed form of the concerto as a whole, in which the three movements are melodically and harmonically connected and played attacca (each movement immediately following the previous one).

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (German:[ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç ˈfeːlɪks ˈmɛndl̩szoːn baʁˈtɔldi]; 3 February 1809– 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewishfamily. Although initially he was brought up without religion, he was later baptised as a Reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was recognised early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his talent.

Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany, where he also revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and in his travels throughout Europe. He was particularly well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there– during which many of his major works were premiered– form an important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical tastes, however, set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatoire (now the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig), which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook.

Violin

The violin is a string instrument in the violin family. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings. Violins are important instruments a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition and in many varieties of folk music (where the violin is often known as the "fiddle"). However, violins are also frequently used in jazz, a number of different forms of rock and roll and metal, and descendants of folk including country music and bluegrass music. Further, the violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures all over the world. The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it.

The violin was first known in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Europe it served as the basis for stringed instruments used in western classical music, the viola and the violin. Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed. Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of "lesser" makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony, Bohemia, and Mirecourt. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers.

MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO in E minor ~ DAVID GARRETT 1997

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
Information posted @ http://perryjgreenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/04/shlomo-mintz-mendelssohn-violin.html

MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO in E minor ~ DAVID GARRETT 1997

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
Information posted @ http://perryjgreenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/04/shlomo-mintz-mendelssohn-violin.html

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
Information posted @ http://perryjgreenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/04/shlomo-mintz-mendelssohn-violin.html

MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO in E minor ~ DAVID GARRETT 1997

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
Information posted @ http://perryjgreenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/04/shlomo-mintz-mendelssohn-violin.html

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
Information posted @ http://perryjgreenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/04/shlomo-mintz-mendelssohn-violin.html

MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO in E minor ~ DAVID GARRETT 1997

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance.
Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he's only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says:
Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.
*************
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirty-six. The concerto, considered an important work and one of the first concertos of the Romantic period, is a popular piece of music.
The piece was innovative in the mid-nineteenth century:
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [1809-1847]: An oil painting done shortly before his death at age thirty-eight. Mendelssohn once said: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Painter: Eduard Magnus [1799-1872]. Done in 1846.
Source: Wikipedia
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, a leading modern Jewish philosopher and rabbi, and one of the founders of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, whose ideas of cultural assimilation contributed to the foundation of Reform Judaism and all its practices.
Felix Mendelssohn, along with his three siblings, were all baptized in 1816 into the Lutheran Church, when he was six. Six years later, in 1822, his parents, Abraham and Leah followed suit, and all took on the additional name of Bartholdy.
As is common in such situations, both the Jews and Christians claim him as their own. Although it is unclear what Felix Mendelssohn thought himself of his religious sentiments. While trying not to belabor the point, one must make a distinction between practical social conventions and true faith. Perhaps a clue can be found in his music.
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MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO in E minor ~ DAVID GARRETT 1997

The record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist David Garrett plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor from an early and young performance he made in 1997. The orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomdtedt.
The performer now plays both pop, rock and classical works and has a huge following in Europe. At age 18 Garrett played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics unanimously for his style and brilliant technique.

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